Sentence examples for various processions from inspiring English sources

Various processions arrived, swirling about, including doorkeepers, serjeants at arms (actual and deputy), the clerk of the crown in chancery (Sir Suma Chakrabarti KCB), trainbearers, chaplains, the gentleman usher of the black rod, plus the lord speaker, an ancient title that goes back all of six years.

Leaders of the various Christian denominations lead processions from Jerusalem, and Manger Square fills with boy scout bagpipe bands.

These processions served various purposes.

Villagers stand up and take notice even as young students in uniform carry placards and shout slogans on health and hygiene taking out a procession through various village streets.

After being ritually transformed into Inca-style offerings in the capital city, the sons and daughters of local chiefs, as well as the chosen Virgins of the Sun god, were then made to travel in ritual procession, to various sacred places located throughout the empire.

During the more public propitiatory rites, the sangha cooperated with the laity by invoking the merciful forces that watch over good order, and processions, fireworks, and various amusements created an atmosphere of hopefulness.

Although, at various times, dancers marched in processions, gestured delicately, fell to the floor in anguish and skipped joyously, the choreography never showed a completely convincing progression from the shadow of death to love and delight.

"The various authors dislike trotting in procession behind me".

The genre inescapably involves a procession of the various human types, the most conspicuous in Mr. Theroux's new novel being Buddy Hamstra, a rich, lovably (and not so lovably) deranged voluptuary who owns the hotel where the ex-writer works.

Interior walls were plastered and magnificently painted with ritual processions of gods and various mythological narratives.

Various political and religious parties staged processions at different places.